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Area, 97,890 square miles. 

Mean temperature, 44 degrees. 

Peerless in its educational facilities. 

Wool clip for 1907 worth $12,000,000. 

Area of coal land, 20,000 square miles. 

Highest grade of soft coal known to man. 

Finest trout fishing known to mortal man. 

Mean elevation, 6,000 feet above sea-level. 

Tons of stream tin have been mined and sold. 

Area covered with timber, 1 0,000,000 acres. 

Lofty mountains, rolling plains, vast plateaus. 

Iron, copper and coal enough for a vast empire. 

Cattle in 1907, 700,000, worth $14,000,000. 

Population (estimated), July 1, 1907, 120,000. 

Five million head of sheep, valued at $1 7,500,000. 

Foremost in the application of the Carey desert land act. 

Finest natural plaster on earth, manufactured at Laramie. 

Father of modern irrigation law and the reclamation act. 

■Area subject to irrigation and cultivation, 10,000,000 acres. 

Nutritious grasses, furnishing abundance of feed for live stock. 

One hundred and fifty cars per day of iron ore shipped from Sunrise and 
Guernsey to Pueblo. 

Natural gas in commercial quantities discovered southwest of Douglas, 
Converse County, and at Basin, Big Horn County. 

Average interest rate in Wyoming, about eight per cent., indicating good 
business conditions and a strong demand for money. Gilt-edged security, 
of course, brings money at a lower rate. 

Great opportunities for making money in sheep, cattle and horses. 

Greatest wonderland in the world, the Yellowstone National Park. 



All the materials necessary for the manufacture of the finest glass. 

Coal mines are being operated in all the counties of the State save one. 

Area subject to entry under the land laws of the United States, 48,000,000 
acres. 

Most famous rendezvous in the world for large game; the hunter's para- 
dise. Has 25,000 wild elk. 

Source of the Columbia, the Missouri, the Colorado, the Rio Grande 
and the Platte. 

Over one million acres of land now being reclaimed under government 
and private enterprises. Ask about them. 

Vast iron deposits, second to those of no State in the Union, cheaply 
mined and high in value. 

Finest hot springs on earth, equal to Carlsbad in mineral properties, 
located at Thermopolis and Saratoga. 

All the mountain ranges contain gold and silver deposits, awaiting the 
hand of the prospector and the miner. 

Resources practically undeveloped. Greatest field on the continent for 
moneyed men to get in on the ground floor. 

Sulphur, asbestos and plumbago are among the minerals discovered in 
quantities considered commercially valuable. 

Grand opportunity for making money in the fattening of lambs upon 
field peas and alfalfa raised upon Wyoming soil. 

The rate of taxation throughout the State has decreased in the aggregate 
during the past ten years two mills on the dollar. 

Semi-anthracite coal has been discovered in Johnson County, and coking 
coal has been discovered in two or three localities, notably at Newcastle. 

County bonds have been sold as low as four per cent.; school district 
bonds, four and one-half per cent., and municipal bonds at the same price, 
showing in the most conclusive manner that the credit of the State is very high. 



A Cattle Round-up in Wyoming 



GEOGRAPHICALLY, Wyoming is classed as 
one of the States of the inter-mountain or arid 
region, and has as its neighbors the greatest 
mining and agricultural States of the West. It was 
admitted as a State July 1 Oth, 1 890, being the forty-fourth State in order of 
admission. Its length from east to west is 355 miles, and width from north 
to south, 276 miles. Its area is 97,890 square miles, or 62,645, 1 20 acres. 

In general appearance the country is mountainous, with valleys, rolling 
plains and plateaus, the latter covered with grasses of great nutrition and 
furnishing admirable pasture for live stock, while the mean elevation is 6,000 
feet above sea level, with extremes ranging from 3,000 to 14,000 feet. 
Probably 10,000,000 acres of the total area of the State are timbered. 

Flowing east or weft, according as their sources are on the eastern or 
western slope of the main range of the Rocky Mountains, which cross the 
State from north to south, are numerous streams, among the number being 
the North Platte, Snake River, Green River, the Big Horn, the Shoshone, 
the Laramie and the Yellowstone. None of these streams are navigable in 
a commercial sense, but they furnish water for the irrigation and development 
of the surrounding country, and are used for the transportation of timber. 

The soil is a light, sandy loam; rich and dark in the valleys. When it 



WYOMING 



is reclaimed by the application of water, bountiful 
returns of agricultural products, with the exception of 
such as thrive only at low altitudes and in warm, damp 
climates, are secured. It is estimated that 1 0,000,000 
acres of the area of the State are suitable for agricultural purposes, if irrigated. 
There are thirteen counties, four judicial districts, four irrigation divisions 
and many school districts. The capital is located at Cheyenne, in the south- 
eastern corner of the State. 

Wyoming offers to-day the greatest opportunities for active development 
of undeveloped natural resources of any of the great western States. Its 
resources are many and diversified, and no man can say what is the future 
of this empire of possibilities. There are enormous areas as yet untouched, 
and the advent of active settlers is all that is necessary to place these dormant 
resources prominently before the commercial world. Railroads are being 
built to the hitherto inaccessible points of the State, others are projected, and 
Opportunity stands awaiting the right man. We need more capital invested 
on a business basis and more men of brains, push and honest purpose. To 
such Fortune stands upon the Continental Divide, with winning smile and 
outstretched arms; to such Wyoming extends a hearty greeting and a co- 
operative hand. The door of opportunity is open to young and energetic men. 



SHEEP* 1 " 



1907 there were over five million sheep in the State, 
valued at $ 1 7,000,000.00. The Wyoming flockmasters 
have been keenly alive to the importance of improving the quality of the 
wool and the necessity of early maturity in mutton. Hence we now find 
\\ yoming lambs topping the market and in demand everywhere. Winter 
feeding of lambs is becoming an important branch of the sheep industry; 
experiments are constantly being made to improve the nutritive value of the 
feed supplied, those conducted 
with a view to ascertaining the 
food value of field peas being 
especially successful. 

Lambs fed on alfalfa hay 
(one of Wyoming's staple agri- 
cultural products) varied with 
peas or grain of some sort, in 
one hundred days of winter 
feeding can be made to weigh 
eighty to ninety pounds; and 
mutton so produced is consid- 
ered by epicures the best on the 
market. 

Wyoming leads all of the 
Western States and Territories 
in the price per head of its 
sheep, and leads every State 
in the Union in the total value 
of its sheep, the number and 
value of its lambs, the amount 
and value of its wool clip, and 
the average weight of fleece 
produced. 

The wool at fifteen cents a 
pound a little more than pays 
all the expense of running the 
sheep for the year, so that the 
increase and mutton are the ac- 
cumulated net profits. 

The State Veterinarian has 



ever a watchful eye upon the flocks of the State, and they are maintained 
in a high state of health, consequently are profitable to their owners. Sheep 
are now run in every County of the State and form the foundations of some 
of the greatest fortunes which have been built up in Wyoming — many of 
them by men who had but a very small capital to begin with. For men of 
this class, who are not afraid to work, there is no better field for profitable 
investment than is now offered in Wyoming sheep. 




A Band of 3,000 Sheep at Alcova, Natrona County, near the Great Government Dam tor Storage of Water for Irrigation 

Projects in thf. North Platte Valley 



tD A ^Jf^I— ITM^" The ranchman has made Wyoming, and in 
A *'**^ >v^A Hi >VJ- ever y County of the State the ranchman is 
its most prosperous citizen. In the early days of the State, when most of 
its vast area was open range, great ranches were the rule, but with changing 
conditions the great ranches are being subdivided and hundreds of homes 
are now found where formerly miles of open range surrounded the buildings 
of a single ranch. 




Ranch Scenes on Beaver Creek, near'Sheridan, in Sheridan County. Altitude 3,800 Feet. 



The ranch scenes here shown in Sheridan County, in the northern part 
of the State, may be taken as typical of any of the ranching communities of 
Wyoming, and there are thousands of other localities where the business of 
ranching on a greater or less scale is adapted to the capital of the incoming 
settler. Every portion of the State is now being reached by railroads, which 
insure the prompt moving of the ranch crops and live stock, and bring the 
ranchman and his family in touch with the neighboring towns. 

The area of land in Wyo- 
ming subject to entry under the 
land laws of the United States 
is given at 48,000,000 acres. 
The mountain ranges adjacent 
to the ranch lands are covered 
with the most: nutritious wild 
grasses, which have made the 
business of ranching possible, 
and while the great open range 
is a thing of the past, there is 
still sufficient grazing for all the 
cattle which can be profitably 
handled from the adjacent 
ranch lands. The Wyoming; 
ranchman is adapting himself 
to the changing conditions of 
livestock raising, and each year 
sees improvements along these 
lines. 

The raising of horses is also 
a branch of the ranch industry 
that may well be taken into 
consideration by any one about 
to embark in this business. It 
is a well recognized fact that 
horses raised at high altitudes 
have better lungs, stronger bone 
and muscle and tougher hoofs 
than those from the lowlands. 
Wyoming is a horse paradise. 



HRV FARMIMP In tne arid West - where il has been 

UL\ I ri^IXiVlll^Vj considered that crops could only be 
raised by means of irrigation, we now find it possible to raise profitable crops 
where the rainfall is less than fifteen inches per annum, not under new methods 
but by the oldest kind of farming, practiced since agriculture began, where 
but a scanty amount of moisture was furnished by the natural rainfall. For 
over forty years this kind of farming has been practiced in California, and for 
over twenty-five years in eastern 
Oregon and eastern Washing- 
ton. In these States it has been 
proved that by deep plowing 
and a proper system of cultiva- 
tion, tilling half the farm each 
year, two years' moisture may 
be saved for the biennial crop. 

The State of Wyoming is 
actively and deeply interested 
in the success of dry farming 
methods, and the view here 
shown is taken on the State Dry 
Farm near Cheyenne, in Lara- 
mie County, at an altitude of six 
thousand feet. This work is 
carried on under the direction 
of the State Dry Farming Com- 
mission, which has employed a 
dry farming expert to take per- 
sonal charge of the operations 
here and at other points in the 
State. These experiments are 
highly successful, and there is 
every indication that this meth- 
od of farming will be one of the 
greatest assets of the State in 
future years. 

Dry farming bulletins may 
be had for the asking, and the 
services of the dry farming ex- 



pert are at the disposal of any settler who will write and ask his advice. 
Farming in the semi-arid regions has become a strict application of scientific 
principles, instead of a haphazard attempt to perform impossibilities. 

To the man who will work, and give his crops strict attention, with due 
reference to the climate, rainfall, and proper selection of crops, the results 
under the present dry farming methods are sure and certain, and Wyoming 
stands at the front to-day in encouraging this great industry. 




View on Model Dry Farm at Cheyenne, Laramie County, showing Unbroken Prairie and Crops of Barley and Sugar Beets 



\Y/ YHM IMP 'QOI1 There are nineteen well-defined oil 
W I W1V111 \l O O W1L. fields in Wyoming, which produce 

oil of an acknowledged superior quality. In each of these oil is flowing horn 
springs, or there are thick bands of oil sand exposed. The greater number of 
these fields are situated in the central portion of the State, but there are fields 
in the northeastern portion, in the southwestern part, and in the northern cent- 
ral region. 




A View in the Oil Fields of Uinta County 



The oils produced by these fields will yield oil of every known grade, 
from an illuminating oil of the highest quality, secured in Uinta County, where 
the wells shown in the illustration are located, to the famous lubricating oils 
of Salt Creek, in Natrona County, which have not the smallest trace of illum- 
inating oil among their constituents. It is in the latter field that the greatest 
progress has been made in development work, and the refinery at Casper 
turns out a varied assortment of lubricants in commercial quantities. 

Convenient access to rail- 
road transportation facilities is 
indispensable to the successful 
and profitable working of an oil 
field, and it is the lack of this 
that has hitherto prevented the 
greater development of the Wy- 
oming fields. With the in- 
creased aciivity in railroad con- 
struction being manifested at 
present, this hindrance is disap- 
pearing, and Wyoming oil is 
becoming a factor in the mar- 
ket. It is certain that a bright 
and prosperous future is before 
this industry. 

Wyoming's infant oil busi- 
ness offers great opportunities to 
the right man. 

Natural gas occurs at many 
points in the State, most often in 
connection with the oil fields, 
though there are several places 
where large flows of gas may 
confidently be expected, not as- 
sociated with the oil districts. 

In some places, notably at 
Grey Bull, in Big Horn Co., 
and near Douglas, in Converse 
Co., these gases are available 
for commercial use. 



WORTIPT TT TT IR F This P icture oi Ed Young's apple 
nWIX U ^ UL1 UIXH, orchard at Lander; in Fremont 

Counts'. Wyoming, shows the pioneer horticultural experiment in this State, 
and demonstrates the possibility of successfully growing apples and other 
fruits at these altitudes. On the Laramie Plains, at an altitude of 7,400 feet, 
Mr. Jacob Lund has an orchard which matures Wealthy apples each year; 
and strawberries, gooseberries, currants and other small fruits can be grown 
wherever there are agricultural 
lands. 

The State Board of Horti- 
culture has issued a beautiful 
pamphlet illustrating the prog- 
ress and success of horticulture 
in Wyoming, and it is sent for 
the asking. Some of the great- 
est men in the State are actively 
interested in this very necessary 
and highly profitable branch of 
agriculture, and it is certain that 
in the future Wyoming will be 
ranked among the hardy fruit 
producers of the West. There 
are nurseries scattered all over 
the State, in nearly every coun- 
ty, and at each County Fair 
there is active competition on 
the part of the fruit enthusiasts 
for the place of honor for their 
products. The common gar- 
den vegetables are raised all 
over the State, and at altitudes 
less than 5,000 feet those rated 
as tender, such as melons, to- 
matoes, pumpkins, squashes, 
peanuts and sweet potatoes are 
grown readily and with entire 
success. 

The best horticultural sec- 



tions of the State are the low altitude lands and the protected valleys of Big 
Horn, Laramie, Johnson, Sheridan and Fremont Counties. 

Successful horticulture at these altitudes offers a wonderful field for men 
and women who understand the business and are willing to adapt themselves 
to the new conditions which they will find prevailing here. For such there 
need be no doubt of the prosperous outcome of a venture in this mosl; inviting 
field. 




Ed. Young's Apple Orchard at Lander ^Fremont County. Twenty-five Varieties are Successfully Grown. Altitude 5,000 Feet. 



IRR1P ATI(^)N Wyoming has the distinction of being the 
HAIvI VJ/-\ A • l ^ /i ^ father of the modern irrigation law and the 
reclamation act, and among the foremost States in work done under them. 

It must be clearly understood by prospective settlers that a great proportion 
of the lands in Wyoming are valuable for farming only if they can be placed 
under irrigation, and it is with this in mind that the great irrigation projects 
of the State, both those carried out by private capital and those now being 
constructed under the direction of the Federal Government, are planned; 
wonderful reservoirs are built, hundreds of miles of ditches are already in ex- 
istence and are being constantly added to, and every effort is being put forth 




Laramie River at the Diversion Dam of the Wyoming Development Company, Albany Col t nty. 



to conserve the waters of the State in the most practical manner possib!e]and 
distribute it so as to obtain the greatest results. 

Title to all water is vested in the State, and all water rights are issued by 
the State Engineer, after the most careful investigation. The water right, 
when once secured, attaches to the land and cannot be separated from it. 

The yield from irrigated land is at least double that in the rain belt on 
products which are generally raised in irrigated districts; the harvest is a 
certainty, as the timely application of water insures a crop. No western 
State has conditions better adapted to secure these advantages than Wyo- 
ming. Our mountains furnish an abundant water supply, which can be 

conserved at the least possible 
cost. The land, as a rule, lies 
in terraces running back from 
the valleys of the streams, a 
circumstance which renders di- 
version and distribution of the 
water easy and economical. 
The almost continual brilliant 
sunshine is a powerful agent in 
securing rapid growth and fine 
quality of crops; and lastly, the 
soil possesses great natural fer- 
tility, needing only the applica- 
tion of water to produce large 
yields of everything commonly 
cultivated in the central tem- 
perate zone. Oats and wheat 
give splendid results. Indian 
corn has been raised m some 
localities, but at the higher alti- 
tudes the nights are too cool. 
Potatoes and alfalfa are among 
our most profitable crops. 

The future settler will com- 
bine irrigation and dry farming 
methods, and thus attain the 
best results, both for Wyoming 
and himself. 



A C* D |(^T It? ET Upon the agriculture of a region must 

■^^^^ v^l\.l_< its continued and permanent prosper- 

ity depend. Poor indeed is any country which has no Staple form of agri- 
cultural industry, and the more varied are its farming interests, the greater is 
the independence, the industrial and financial success of its people. The 
conditions in Wyoming are so varied that it is difficult to classify them. On 
the high plateaus the rich native grasses grow to perfection, and alfalfa, early 
varieties of potatoes and other root crops, many varieties of grains, and any 
crops which can be matured in short season, can be successfully grown. In 
these parts of the State there are still large tracts of cheap land to be obtained, 
which will give good returns. 

In localities where the lands 
lie at elevations from 3,500 to 
5,000 feet the season is consid- 
erably longer, and some phe- 
nomenal crops have been pro- 
duced. An acre of potatoes in 
Johnson County took the first 
prize at the Chicago Exposi- 
tion, with 974 bushels and 48 
pounds; and the Wheatland 
Experiment Farm produced an 
average of 8 1-2 tons of alfalfa 
hay per acre for three years. 

As a whole the soils of the 
State are wonderfully fertile, as 
they have not been subjected 
to leaching by heavy rainfall, 
and contain all the plant food 
in the original rocks from which 
they were formed. Maintain- 
ing this fertility is simply a mat- 
ter of experienced farm practice 
and rotation of crops. 

Great strides have been 
made in Wyoming agriculture 
in the last ten years, and it is 
certain that the next ten will be 



equally remarkable. In 1 904, at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Wyo- 
ming received more grand prizes and gold medals for her agricultural crops, 
for her size and population, than any other State. At the Annual State Fair 
at Douglas a wonderful exhibit is shown and each year sees a marked im- 
provement. 

Agriculture is equally successful in the low altitudes of Sheridan County 
and on the high altitudes of the Laramie Plains in Albany County, and both 
offer equal opportunities to the farmer of brains and determination, who can 
adapt himself to the conditions found here and avail himself of the experience 
of those who have preceded him. 




Alfalfa Field at Careyhdrst, Converse County. Altitude about 4.900 Feet. 



COPPER AND IRON ^'±^t^ 

to-day. In 1907 Wyoming produced 2,350,000 pounds of copper and 
675,000 tons of iron ore. These came from very small spots on the mineral 
map of the State and active mining is in progress in nearly every mountain 
range within her boundaries. Until the last ten years but little actual mining 
had been attempted, the undeveloped mineral possibilities of the State having 




General View of Penn-Wyoming Copper Company's Concfntratino Mill and Smelter, at Encampment, Carbon County. 
The Capacity of this Mill is 1,000 Tons of Ore per Day, and Blister Copper is Made Here. 



been neglected for the more apparent fortunes in live stock and kindred indus- 
tries. Now the situation has changed, and the whole State is being actively 
prospected, with some surprising results. In nearly every County may be 
found a constantly increasing number of mining camps, and each year sees 
new producers of metal entering the lists. 

During the past few years copper in commercial quantities has been found 
in nearly all of the thirteen counties of the State. Development work is being 

actively pushed in all parts of 
the district called the "Grand 
Encampment country", in Car- 
bon and Albany Counties, in 
which lie the famous Ferris- 
Haggarty and Doane-Rambler 
mines. Albany County boasti 
the Great Rambler mine, con- 
taining copper in almost all its 
known forms. Big Horn and 
Fremont Counties show pros- 
pects which are believed to be 
of great promise. 

Second to those of no State 
in the Union are the deposits of 
iron ore. Prospecting along 
this line has been very limited 
and only iron districts near the 
railroads have received any at- 
tention. The only districts 
where mining has been carried 
on are Hartville, Rawlins and 
Seminoe. The soft ores from 
these camps make an excellent 
paint, and hard ores also exist. 
These ores are much used by 
smelters as a flux. 

No other field offers finer 
opportunities for mining invest- 
ment than this long-neglected 
State of Wyoming. 










Birdseye View of Rock Springs, Sweetwater County, where 3,000,000 Tons of Coal are Produced Annually. 



WYOMING COAL is known from one end of the 
vv country to the other, and it was this coal which 
made the first great trans-continental railroads a commer- 
cial possibility. The coal production of Wyoming has 
grown from 35,000 tons in 1868 to over 6,000,000 tons per annum in 1907. 
There are over 20,000 square miles of known coal land in Wyoming — a 
greater area in proportion to its size than is found in any other of the Rocky 
Mountain States — and coal mines are actively operated in twelve out of the 




thirteen counties. The kinds of coal vary from a pure 
lignite to a high-grade bituminous variety. The best 
grades are low in sulphur and ash, and are excellent fuels 
for locomotives, general sleam-making, domestic purposes 

and gas production. Fine coking coal is mined at Cambria, Weslon County. 
As new railroads push out into the hitherto negledted portions of the State, 

new coal fields become available and new fortunes are being built up from 

the black diamonds of Wyoming. 



SMALL RANCHMEN 



Here is a view of a typical 
small ranch in Wyoming, 
located among the foot-hills of the mountains, where the available creek bot- 
toms are successfully cultivated, hay and small grains being raised on a limited 
scale; the live slock of the ranchman find splendid grazing on the mountain 
slopes around the ranch. 

Hundreds of these small ranches are scattered from one end of the State to 




A View of Mountain Ranch in Salt Creek Valley, near Newcastle, Weston County. Altitude 5,100 Feet. 



the other, and every one of them is a profitable venture. In former years these 
small valleys were but a portion of the grazing lands of the great ranches, but 
under the changing conditions in the West the small ranchman has a better 
chance than ever before, and with the improved conditions of farming, better 
breeds of slock and more careful attention to the details of his business than 
the former great cattle-owners gave, he is building up a profitable business in 
a few years with a small capital. 

The small ranchman avails 
himself of all springs and small 
streams having even a tempo- 
rary flow, in order to cover the 
greatest area possible with the 
least cost. He does not require 
long ditches or large reservoirs, 
and by applying to his partially 
irrigated lands the methods that 
have made dry farming a suc- 
cess, he can cover a greater area 
and produce a larger crop, and 
though his farming venture is on 
a limited scale, he makes it a 
financial success. The home 
market for his produce is rapid- 
ly developing, shipping facili- 
ties increase as railroads are ex- 
tended, but in every case his 
beef, wool and mutton are al- 
ways salable, and it is to these 
products that the small ranch- 
man first turns his attention. 

In no case does the rancher 
consider himself isolated, as it 
has always been the policy of 
the Wyoming administrations 
to provide ample school facili- 
ties, even in the sparsely settled 
districts, and usually a mail route 
passes quite near his home. 



/"* A r pT The wonderful native grasses, which cover the plains 

^-"■** A A 1— '1— ' f Wyoming, made the cattle business possible in the 
early days, and the cattle business made the State of Wyoming a reality. In 
former days the free range made vast herds of cattle a profitable investment, 
but with the passing of the open range, the improvement in the grade of the 
slock was a necessity and many herds of the highest grade of cattle and other 
live slock are now maintained throughout the State. 

\^ yoming can grow better 
beef at a less cost than almost 
any other section, for the reason 
that land values are very low, 
as compared with land values 
of other States. Stock raisers 
are rapidly coming to appre- 
ciate the importance of winter 
feeding, and as a consequence 
hay and grain production is 
receiving more attention every 
year. Moreover, alfalfa, hay 
and oats combined form a per- 
fect ration for the correct and 
complete development of bone, 
muscle and flesh, while our nat- 
ural buffalo grass and bluestem 
hay excels the famous bluegrass 
of Kentucky. Under irrigation 
these are cheaply and quickly 
grown, while our cloudless 
summer skies permit us to har- 
vest these crops so as to retain 
all nutritive properties. 

Blood and feed, with ideal 
natural conditions, in a land 
where disease is unknown, en- 
able us to defy the world in the 
breeding of live stock. Our 
winters are mild; cattle graze in 
the fields during the whole year. 



Wyoming cattle are healthy, and the State exercises a rigid supervision 
over all incoming herds. All beef breeds do well and show a marked im- 
provement in this high altitude. Experiments made by our more progressive 
ranchmen have demonstrated conclusively that steers can be hay-fed and 
matured during the winter with great profit. There is to-day no better oppor- 
tunity for money-making than producing beef in Wyoming. 

Dairying is also a paying branch of the cattle industry. 




Herd op Thoroughbred Hereford Cattle — One of the Famous Herds of Johnson, Laramie and Uinta Counties. 



HEALTH 



Wyoming is noteworthy for the good health that pre- 
vails among its people; the climate is similar to that 
of the mountain region of Italy, and is not, as many erroneously suppose, extra- 
ordinarily severe in winter. The dry air is invigorating, and there are few 
climates more bracing, healthful or pleasant than that of this mountain region. 
Hot springs, whose medicinal and curative properties are amply estab- 
lished, abound throughout the State; the great Thermopolis Hot Springs in 



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A Near View of the Great Hot Springs, Thirty Feet in Diameter and of Unknown Depth, Flowing Thousands of Gallons 
Daily of Scalding Hot, Medicinal Waters, at Big Horn Hot Springs, Thermopolis. 



Big Horn County are the property of the State, which maintains a bath house 
absolutely free to all those who wish to avail themselves of the curative prop- 
erties of these wonderful waters. These springs are reached by the Burlington 
Railroad, and there is ample accommodation at Thermopolis for all comers, 
as well as ample camping ground for those who wish to camp out at the 
springs. These springs are destined to become as well known and popular as 
the famous Hot Springs of Arkansas or the Carlsbad waters of Europe. 

Thousands visit them now, and 
as their fame spreads through- 
out the West, the number is in- 
creasing yearly. 

In Wyoming the heat is never 
intense. In the hottest summer 
weather it is but a step from the 
heat of the sunshine into the shade 
which is always cool. Sunstroke 
is unknown. The air in winter is 
clear and sharp, but easily borne 
and even pleasant. All over the 
State — except at high altitudes — 
one may, even in midwinter, sit in 
comfort in the sunshine in any 
sheltered corner. In the shade 
there is the tingle of northern cold, 
and heavy clothing is none too 
warm. This cool but sunshiny 
air acts as a tonic and aids nutri- 
tion. The brilliant and continu- 
ous sunshine, so dear to the true 
Westerner, is often mistaken by 
Eastern people to mean unseason- 
able heat, but really has nothing 
to do with the temperature. We 
offer the invalid, not a climate of 
balmy warmth, but better, one in 
which the bracing cold is flooded 
for more than three-fourths of the 
day with bright sunshine. 



Q^CT \IETD\^ The average traveller who considers himself well 
KJK^L^iyL^lX 1 po ^ ec | wi jj gaily affirm that Wy mmg is devoid 

of scenic attractions, but in reality there is no region in the world which can 
show scenery of the same grandeur as that of northwestern Wyoming, south 
and east of Yellowstone Park. The Park itself is too well known to need 
description here, but the region surrounding it offers the most wonderful series 
of views to be found in the world to-day, and with the rapidly increasing rail- 
road facilities of this region 
these are becoming known 
so widely that each year 
sees a constant stream of 
tourists directing their Steps 
toward this Switzerland of 
America. 

The National Park 
can be reached by wagon 
routes which enable one to 
make delightful camping 
trips through beautiful and 
diversified scenic country. 
The Cody Gateway of the 
Burlington Route is a won- 
derfully picturesque trip 
over a splendid new gov- 
ernment road covering the 
fifty miles horn Cody to 
the Park. The tally-ho 
coaches make stops at Col. 
Cody's famous hotels. 

Guides and camping 
outfits can be had at Cody 

Another plan is for the 
tourist to outfit at Lander 
on the Wyoming & North- 
western Railroad, taking 
his choice of several routes. 

From Green River o 
Rawlins on the Union Pa- 



cific a wagon trip may be arranged through the most wonderful wild scenery 
on the continent, and for the man who wants a good long camping trip, and a 
rest from his usual occupations, this latter trip is recommended. Any of them 
will be a wonderful experience, the impressions of which will last a lifetime. 
The Devil's Tower, here illustrated, is one of the most unique bits of 
scenery on the American continent. It is in Crook County, in the northeastern 
part of the State, and is a conspicuous landmark, visible for hundreds of miles. 







EDUCATION 



Wyoming was the first Stateto grant equal 
political rights to men and women, and it 
is but natural that the subject ol education should receive the most profound 




The University of Wyoming, at Laramie. 



attention. The schools of Wyoming are second to none, and in each County 
of the State every facility is extended to the children, however isolated are 
their homes, to secure an education. Schools are provided where there are 

even a very small num- 
ber of pupils, and in all 
large towns are good 
high schools, which fit 
the young people for 
the State University. 

The University of 
Wyoming, located at 
Laramie, is an admira- 
ble institution, which 
offers splendid courses 
in literature, science and 
art, as well as in mining, 
mechanical and irriga- 
tion engineering, agri- 
culture and commerce. 

The University is 
founded and maintained 
for the purpose of being 
as useful as possible to 
the people of Wyoming, 
and the various regular 
and special courses car- 
ried on under the direc- 
tion of the Faculty are 
of the greatest practical 
benefit. 

Bulletins are issued 
by the University from 
time to time on topics of 
general interest to farm- 
ers and others, and are 
sent free upon request to 
all who will apply for 
them. 



MINERALS 



As hinted elsewhere, the mineral industry of Wyo- 
ming is yet in its infancy and the mountain ranges 
throughout the State offer a wonderful field to the prospector. Gold and silver, 
copper and iron and the lesser minerals such as sulphur, asbestos, building clays 
and building stone of every description have been demonstrated to exist in com- 
mercial quantities in many localities. So important is the future of the mineral 
industry considered by the people of the State that the School of Mines of the 
University has recently been provided with new and commodious quarters, and a 
large sum has been spent on machinery, tools and equipment. 

It is a curious fact that the first gold discoveries of the West were made in 
Wvoming. and for a time the Sweetwater Mines, as the South Pass Gold District 
was then known, were famous the world over. Millions of dollars were taken 
out of the placers, and the mining camps flourished with all the old time romance. 

The placer mines were followed by discoveries of the lode mines, and the 
names of the "Miner's Delight", "Carissa" and "Big Atlantic" became household 
worlds throughout the country. New discoveries in other States soon attracted 
the floating population of the early camps, and for many years these gold mines 
have lain practically idle. 

Now they are being opened up by men of large capital. Improved modern 
machinery, new plans for saving all the gold, have succeeded the wasteful ways 
of the old "flush times", and Wyoming is once more on the high road to be a 
producer of precious metals — a result toward which Albany County will contribute 
the output of the rich Douglas Creek and other placers, and Carbon, Fremont, Big 
Horn and Uinta Counties will add the richness of their now undeveloped mines. 




A Wyoming Placer. 




Wyoming stands twelfth in 
the list of the coal-producing 
States, and while the amount 
produced in other States has 
remained stationary in the past 
two years, the amount mined in 
Wyoming has increased twenty 
per cent. One of the fields 
that has made a rapid gain is 
that near Sheridan, one of the 
prosperous camps of which is 
Dietz, a view of which is here 
shown. The mines here em- 
ploy some 2,000 miners. 



HUNTING AND FISHING 



T"HE Jackson Hole country of western Wyoming is the greatest big game 

hunting ground in the world. The State Game Warden is authority 

for the statement that there are 25,000 wild elk in the State to-day. Deer 

are found in every mountain range, and antelope are still running wild 

wherever the open range remains. 

Wyoming is the natural home of the trout. Nature planted them in 
the headwaters of the Colorado and the Missouri, and the State Fish Hatch- 
eries supply several millions of young trout to be planted in the streams each 
year, until now almost every river and creek in the State furnishes sport for 
the fisherman. To describe each locality would require pages instead of a 
few lines. There is open season all the year round for fishing, but big game 



and game birds are protected under stringent game laws, which are strictly 
enforced under the direction of the State Game Warden. 

The open season is as follows: 

Grouse and sage chickens, August 1 st to September 1 5th. 

Deer, elk, antelope, mountain sheep, September 1 5th to November 1 5th. 

Snipe, plover, ducks and geese, September 1 st to May 1 st. 

A hunting license is required for big game and game birds, and non- 
resident hunters must be accompanied by a licensed guide when hunting game 
animals. The big game districts may be reached from points along the 
Union Pacific; from Lander, in Fremont County, the present terminus of the 
Chicago & Northwestern, or from Cody or Thermopolis on the Burlington. 




SUCCESSFUL HIGH ALTITUDE FARMING A FACT IN WYOMING 



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Harvesting Irrigated Oats on the Stoner Ranch, near Cokeville, Uinta County. Altitude 6,192 Feet. 

Compare the Standing Oats and Reaper Team. 

Ask the STATE BOARD OF IMMIGRATION, Cheyenne, Wyo„ about it all 



Press of The S. A. Bristol Co., Cheyenne, Wyo. 




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